I heard this story in a movie once. These marines were on a plane heading to what was then known as "Desert Shield" and one of the marines said to another: "Where I'm from, I thought by now I'd be either dead or in jail. But the shit of this is, this would be the day that I'd be getting out of jail ( Read more... )

Well, right now, I need a break from all this continental drift/plate tectonic theory, so I figured I'd update. However, there isn't much to say. I do feel rather indifferent to school right now because I think that this has been the longest semester of my life. The reason I feel this way is that I am taking nothing but required classes and I ( Read more... )

Holy Crap! I can't wait for this semester to be over. I am officially running on fumes, officially. for thursday, I have a 10 page critical essay due and all I have so far is the introduction. It's not even a strong introduction at that. In fact, it's probably the worst introduction I have ever written. I'm so disgusted by it that I can't ( Read more... )

I'm sitting in Rebecca's room right now waiting on her to finish getting ready for church. I feel good about going to church; especially after a night of work. I love my job, but sometimes I get very tired and cannot seem to pull myself out of that place between sleep and awake, but today, I feel energetic enough to go to church. This makes me

I don't know what it is, but lately I've been doing a lot of thinking about the state of my heart. Literally and spiritually speaking. Literally, my blood pressure and pulse rate are normal by the measurement of the Wal-Mart blood pressure sleeve, but I've been having some chest pains and I don't know if they're from eating too many fatty foods, ( Read more... )

At last, I'm ready for Christmas...

Well, I'm sitting here in the Kate Wofford Hall front desk and Jeremy is with me. He just said one of the funniest original things I have ever heard him say. I say original because he normally speaks in stand-up lines and Chapelle's Show quotations. He just said, "The Olive Garden?! That's like the Red Lobster of Italian restaurants." I ( Read more... )

The Rock Hill Roasting Company has gone out of business. All I can say is, "It's about damn time!"

I wish I were able to write essays and poetry that expresses depth of meaning.

Matthew Bailey

ENGL 323

Dr. John Bird

13 November 2005

“Blame de Pint!”

I believe that Jane Smiley was too quick to make a judgment as to the brilliance, or lack of, to Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and its place in literature as an authoritative text indicting racism and the plight of black America.  Smiley would have us believe that ( Read more... )